290: From three-dimensional beings to higher-dimensional life forms!

Pain.

If Lu Chen had to describe his current feeling in one word, it would be—shattering.

It wasn't that his bones were broken or his muscles torn, but that every fundamental particle of his being was being forcibly disassembled and then re-encoded by an overwhelmingly powerful force at this very moment.

That golden stream of light that had merged into his body was not energy at all; it was “rules.”

It was the “source code” from a Six-Dimensional Civilization, used to construct the universe's underlying logic!

As these codes frantically poured into Lu Chen's fragile carbon-based body, his DNA double helix structure instantly collapsed.

"Ahhh—!!!"

Lu Chen let out a long howl, but the sound didn't come from his throat; instead, it unleashed a tsunami in the dimension of his thoughts.

On the bridge, Su Qingying covered her mouth in horror.

She saw Lu Chen's body actually beginning to “melt”!

His skin turned into a translucent, crystalline form. What flowed in his blood vessels was no longer crimson blood, but a golden substance, like liquid light. His bones glowed, his internal organs reorganized, and his entire being was like a porcelain doll being remolded with clay, filled with a strange and sacred beauty.

"Lu Chen! What's wrong with you?! heavenly craft! Stop it! Stop it now!"

Su Qingying frantically rushed to the control panel, trying to cut off the power supply.

[Mistress, it can't be stopped.]

heavenly craft's figure appeared, but this time she didn't look at Su Qingying; instead, she stared intently at Lu Chen, who was suspended in mid-air, her virtual eyes filled with unprecedented awe and... trembling.

[Master... he is ascending.]

[He is abandoning his low-dimensional mortal flesh; he is stepping into... the realm of gods!]

"What god or not god! I just want him alive!" Su Qingying's tears streamed down, but she found that she couldn't get within three meters of Lu Chen.

There was an invisible field there, an absolute repulsion caused by dimensional differences!

Just then, Lu Chen's consciousness had floated to a height he had never reached before.

He “saw.”

He no longer saw with his eyes, but with a brand new sense, “perceiving” the world in all directions, without blind spots.

In the eyes of a three-dimensional being, a table is flat and a cup is round.

But in Lu Chen's current eyes, the table was a tangled mass of wood fibers and quantum clouds, and the cup was a cylinder continuously extending along the time axis.

He saw the starry sky outside the bridge, no longer just specks of light, but vast, curved nets. Gravity was the depressions in the net, and light was the ripples on the net.

He saw Su Qingying beside him.

Not only did he see her anxious face, but he also saw the blood accelerating through her body, the active electrical signals in her cerebral cortex, and even the trajectory of the tears that were about to fall in the next second.

Past, present, future.

In his eyes, the three were no longer distinct, but overlapped, becoming a scroll that could be flipped through at will.

"Is this... a high-dimensional perspective?"

Lu Chen murmured to himself.

This feeling was so wonderful, like a frog that had always lived at the bottom of a well suddenly jumped out and saw the vast sky and sea.

Physics problems that once seemed intractable now appeared as simple as elementary arithmetic; powerful enemies that once filled him with fear now seemed as ridiculous as scribbles on paper.

If he wished, he could reach out and pluck the string representing “gravity,” causing the entire spaceship to disintegrate instantly; or pluck the string representing “time,” making an apple in his hand instantly rot and then instantly restore.

This was authority.

This was... God!

"No, it's not enough."

Lu Chen did not indulge in the pleasure of this omniscience.

He knew very well that although his consciousness had evolved, his body was not enough. This fragile carbon-based body simply could not bear such immense power of rules. It was like trying to put nuclear fuel into an engine made of paper; the only result would be an explosion.

"Reconstruct!"

Lu Chen thought, and the genesis engine core, which had already merged deep into his soul, instantly responded to his will!

Boom—!

In the real world, Lu Chen's body suddenly exploded!

Yes, it exploded!

But he did not die; instead, he transformed into billions of golden light particles. These light particles danced and spun in the void, then began to rearrange according to an extremely profound and perfect geometric structure!

He no longer needed carbohydrates to sustain life, nor oxygen for metabolism.

He directly drew zero-point energy from the vacuum!

He directly used dark matter to construct his skeleton!

Within a few seconds, a brand new, perfect body, radiating a faint divine glow, was reshaped in the light!

This body still looked human, still had black hair and yellow skin.

But beneath every inch of skin, there was enough energy to destroy heaven and earth; in every cell, the most fundamental truths of the universe were inscribed!

"Hoo..."

The light dispersed.

Lu Chen slowly landed, his feet making no sound as they touched the deck, as if he himself was the master of gravity.

He slowly opened his eyes.

At that instant, all the lights on the bridge seemed to dim.

What kind of eyes were those!

The left eye was as deep as a black hole, seemingly capable of devouring all light; the right eye was as brilliant as a galaxy, seemingly nurturing billions of stars.

Gold and silver intertwined, divine power like a prison!

"Lu... Lu Chen?"

Su Qingying tentatively called out, her voice trembling beyond recognition.

The man before her, though identical to Lu Chen in appearance, possessed an aura—that lofty, as if he could ascend to the heavens at any moment, aura—that made her feel incredibly unfamiliar and terrified.

Was he... still the Lu Chen who loved braised pork and joked with her?

Hearing the call, the divine light in Lu Chen's eyes slightly receded.

He turned his head and looked at Su Qingying.

That indifferent gaze, as if looking down on all living beings, suddenly melted away the moment it met Su Qingying's tearful eyes.

"Silly girl, why are you crying?"

Lu Chen's lips curved slightly, revealing that familiar, slightly roguish smirk.

He took a step.

Space shortened beneath his feet; the original ten-meter distance instantly became zero.

He appeared directly in front of Su Qingying, reaching out to gently wipe away the tears on her cheeks.

The touch of his fingertips was warm, real, and reassuringly body temperature.

"Didn't I survive?"

"Not only did I survive, but I also got an upgrade along the way."

Lu Chen stretched his neck, making a crisp “crack-crack” sound, and said with a relaxed expression:

"I feel incredibly good now."

"Even if that so-called the cleaners stood before me now, I could slap it back into its mother's womb!"

"You... you scared me to death!"

Su Qingying could no longer hold back. She suddenly threw herself into Lu Chen's arms, hugging him with all her might and bursting into tears.

"I thought... I thought you'd become an immortal and wouldn't want me anymore!"

"How could that be."

Lu Chen gently patted her back, his gaze as tender as a spring pool.

"What's so good about being an immortal? Can't eat hotpot, can't sleep in, and can't fall in love."

"I didn't go through all this trouble to evolve just to be a clay Buddha."

"I'm doing this to..."

Lu Chen raised his head, his gaze sweeping over Su Qingying's shoulder to the vast starry sky outside the window.

A sharp glint flashed in his heterochromatic pupils once more.

"To pull down all those who want to be immortals, who want to ride on our heads..."

"And kick them off their high horses!"

"heavenly craft!"

Lu Chen lightly called out in his mind.

[Here, Master! Congratulations on successfully completing your life form leap! Current life level: 4.5 (Demigod Body)!]

heavenly craft's voice was trembling with excitement.

"Report the situation."

[Yes! The genesis engine has taken full control! Galactic Center black hole energy output is stable! The “Destiny” system... upgrade complete!]

[Now we have the ability to perform small-scale “reality modification” within the Milky Way Galaxy!]

"Very good."

Lu Chen released Su Qingying and turned to the command console.

His steps were steady and powerful; with every step he took, the entire expedition seemed to breathe with him.

"War Wolf!"

"Here!"

Though the towering man was also shocked by Lu Chen's transformation, his soldier's instinct immediately made him stand at attention and salute.

"Inform the entire army, rest period over!"

"We're going to do something big."

Lu Chen looked at the red dot on the star map representing the cleaners, his eyes burning with killing intent.

"It wants to cleanse us, doesn't it?"

"Then we'll go deliver ourselves to its doorstep."

"Let it see..."

"Who's cleansing whom!"

Lu Chen suddenly waved his hand, and the space in his palm slightly twisted, as if grasping an invisible scepter.

"Target: the cleaners fleet, four hundred light-years away!"

"Entire army... jump!"